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Analysis and Explanation

Take a Bow was played at many of the gigs during the Black Holes and Revelations tour, leading to a high number of performances. Unlike other non-single songs from the album, Take a Bow was played consistently often during 2006, 2007 and 2008 and skipped only at a few gigs. During The Resistance tour, the song was brought back in 2010 with a few scattered performances during the European tour and rare appearances in October and December. After only three performances in 2011, the song was dropped from the setlists, making no appearances during The 2nd Law era.

On March 1st, 2016, the song made a surprise appearance for the first time in five years at the fourth night of the Paris Bercy Arena gigs as the first song of the Encore. It continued to make regular appearances until the end of the Drones World Tour, being dropped for festival gigs. It returned the next year and made occasional appearances at shows. It was included as part of the setlist in the Simulation Theory World Tour, though it was played half a step down. During the performances, Matt sings the first verse while holding a skull - seemingly representing the simulation war lords that have corrupted society in this reality.

NOTE: A lot of the early 2006 footage is incomplete/of poor quality. Camera recording at concerts had not become as mainstream at this time. For the sake of quality, please do not select performances marked "incomplete" if you do not wish to see incomplete performances.

See also

This is a table of Black Holes and Revelations-era live performances.

Note: white indicates performed at 75-100% of known setlists.

Gainsboro indicates performed at 50-75% of known setlists.

Silver indicates performed at 25-50% of known setlists.

Dark gray indicates performed at 0-25% of known setlists.

Black indicates no known performance that year.

Aqua indicates a performance in the current tour and year for which the final amount of performances is unknown.

All years with unknown setlists (1997-2004) are indicated with small font.